As a long-time Bastard reader, I was slightly nervous about Copycat because sometimes creators peak and then coast. Ten chapters in I can confirm this is absolutely not coasting. Kim seems genuinely energized by this premise.
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As a long-time Bastard reader, I was slightly nervous about Copycat because sometimes creators peak and then coast. Ten chapters in I can confirm this is absolutely not coasting. Kim seems genuinely energized by this premise.
This is one of those series where knowing it exists and is being adapted is already changing how I spend my weekends. Started the manhwa three days ago and I have responsibilities that are not getting done.
Eleceed at eleven feels right given the CGI question mark hanging over it. DandeLion is talented but The First Slam Dunk worked because the sport itself has natural 3D movement. Superpowers and cat comedy are different challenges.
For people on the fence, chapters one and two are a slow burn but chapter three completely changed my read on everything that came before. Give it at least that far.
The Saitama comparison is interesting but Yu is darker because One Punch Man eventually finds humor in the premise. The Boxer finds tragedy. There is no relief valve.
The manhwa has over 1.6 billion cumulative views worldwide according to some reports. This is not a niche property hoping for an audience. The audience already exists and it is enormous.
The slide capture feature is something the article barely mentions but it is actually excellent. Having the slide image embedded right next to the relevant transcript section means you never lose the visual context.
I work in literary translation and the ghostwriting premise is doing something quite clever because it puts language itself at the center of a romance story. Who speaks for whom and whether borrowed words can still carry real feeling are questions with serious literary history behind them.
Teams with consistent participants get better speaker attribution over time according to the article. That is genuinely useful for recurring standups where you want to track who said what across weeks.
When a manhwa gets compared to Frieren: Beyond Journey's End but with a dark, bleak twist, expectations immediately rise. The Tale of the Skeleton Messenger, released on Webtoon in January 2026 by creators kain_y and SORAGAE, arrives with that exact premise and a tone that sets it apart from the increasingly crowded fantasy manhwa landscape. Most fantasy stories lean toward hopeful narratives where heroes overcome darkness through determination and friendship. Even dark fantasy typically offers glimmers of light and the possibility of triumph. The Tale of the Skeleton Messenger takes a different approach, embracing bleakness and melancholy in ways that feel refreshing rather than oppressive, thoughtful rather than nihilistic.
There's a photograph from February 2026 that pretty much sums up the state of AI right now. At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited the world's tech leaders onstage for a group photo. Everyone held hands. Well, almost everyone. Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic, standing right next to each other, refused to clasp hands and instead raised their fists separately. The internet, predictably, lost its mind. An awkward moment between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at an AI Summit captured the increasingly icy relations between two rival tech leaders who started off as colleagues. That's not just petty drama. It's a window into what may be the most consequential corporate rivalry in the technology world right now, one that's playing out in boardrooms, courtrooms, Super Bowl ads, and billion-dollar compute deals all at once.
Every single one of these companies, Anthropic included, is going to spend billions on this and some of them are going to fail spectacularly. That is just the nature of moonshot hardware bets. Not everyone who tries this succeeds.
Already invisible. The moment a feature becomes expected it disappears from the conversation. Nobody celebrates that Reddit has editable comments anymore.
Instagram has rolled out a small but long overdue feature that users have been asking for years. You can now edit your comments after posting them. This simple change solves a very real frustration. Until now, fixing even the smallest typo meant deleting your comment and writing it all over again. That friction is finally gone. But there is a boundary. You get a 15 minute window after posting to make edits. Within that time, you can update your comment as many times as you want. There is also a layer of transparency built in. Once a comment is edited, others will be able to see that it has been modified. However, unlike platforms such as iMessage, Instagram does not show the edit history. What was originally written stays hidden.
Meta has just had one of its most important AI moments yet and the early signals are hard to ignore. Following the launch of its newest AI model Muse Spark, the company’s standalone Meta AI app surged dramatically in popularity, hinting at a much larger shift that is beginning to take shape. The release is particularly significant because it marks the first major AI model rollout under Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta to reboot its AI strategy. This is not just another incremental update. It represents a more aggressive and focused push into the AI race. According to data from Appfigures, Meta AI jumped from number 57 to number 5 on the U.S. App Store within a day of the launch. That kind of movement rarely happens without a strong underlying pull from users. It signals not curiosity but intent.
The article ends with a note about platforms winning by improving how conversations happen rather than just hosting them. That is true but it also sounds like a pitch for a product. The line between analysis and marketing copy is thin here.
DCA and stop worrying about the daily candles. That's my whole strategy and honestly it's the only one that has ever worked consistently for me.
Anna Wintour was also in that front row. If she is there, the show matters. Full stop.
I love wearing my denim jacket half off my shoulders with dresses like this it adds such a cool casual vibe
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